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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

#1476: Monica Cole and the "One Million Moms"

The group One Million Moms was created to promote a boycott of JC Penney over their choice of Ellen
DeGeneres, a “strong gay activist” because of her support of same-sex marriage,
as a spokesperson. The group, which seems to have missed the million members
mark by some distance, prides itself on the promotion of Family Values™ and similar hate ideologies and is, of course, particularly focused on
homosexuality. JC Penney was not impressed by their campaigns, but the organization has continued its fight against decency and civilization by focusing on a variety of other targets, as
an arm of the American Family Association.

Monica Cole, the director, has for instance made an effort to have Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
censored from Common Core because “[t]his book is no different than pornography,”
particularly because of one character’s “use of the Lord's name to justify his [perverted]
actions,” which is apparently an attempt to brainwash kids into violence and
sex slavery or something. Other targets for the group include Wicked (a recipe for “how to get away with murder”), Macy’s (because of a “kinky boots” performance), Graham crackers (because of Honey
Maid’s “disrespect of millions of American families by supporting the
homosexual agenda”), The Gap,
The Fosters,
the show Lucifer (because it is “not only disrespecting Christianity and mocking the Bible, but
it can mess with people's eternity”) and The
New Normal, which according to Cole shows how Hollywood “continues to attack Christian values, conservative values,
the traditional family,” while mourning that “the moral decay in public
airwaves is continuing.” Among their more recent targets is Tylenol,
after a gay couple showed up in one of their commercials. The ad claimed that
“[f]amily isn’t defined by who you love, but how,” and Cole responded that this
message illustrates that “Tylenol is just contributing to the collapse of the
family.” Just think about it.

How successful have they been? In June 2015 Cole at least
bragged about having had the television show “Black Jesus” cancelled, which must be news to Cartoon
Network, who renewed it in December 2014.

Diagnosis:
At least Bryan Fischer shows some originality; Cole is mostly just boring – the same
old non-arguments and non-reasons to provide a feeble cover for very mundane
hatred and craziness. At least her influence appears to be far more negligible than she
seems to think.